Present:Lorraine Brown, Professor of
English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences;Rick Coffinberger, Associate Professor of Business and Legal
Studies, School of Management, Chair; Martin Ford, Senior Associate
Dean, College of Education and Human Development; Dave Harr,
Senior Associate Dean, School of Management;Marilyn Mobley, Associate
Provost for Educational Programs and Associate Professor of English; Suzanne Slayden, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
College of Science.

Preamble:A
Strategic Planning Exercise is underway; three meetings including President (2)
and Provost (1); may result in a new mission statement. A presentation will be
made at mid-August BOV retreat.The purpose
of the exercise is in preparation for SACS accreditation; required to have a
strategic plan statement in which have consulted with all key
constituencies.Mission statement may
not change based on this exercise, but unknown whether “great university”
discussion may impact it in the future, as the mission statement is now 16
years old.

Need to ascertain changes to Equal Opportunity statement –
to check new catalog statement (to be published shortly) as well as new
recruiting statement including the word “diversity.”

Preface:Central
administration carries out all the functions and policies approved by the BOV,
impractical to leave out.

Should the Faculty Handbook have sections dealing
with different kinds of faculty?

·Impractical to combine with
administrative/professional faculty in terms of topics covered; they generally
do not have instruction or research as core part of their job; not against
including research faculty.

·Faculty Handbook peer-oriented; vs.
line-oriented, hierarchical Administrative/Professional Faculty
Handbook.There is a poor
understanding of the diversity of professional faculty in the university;many types of jobs,
some do not have graduate degrees, no coherence if combined..Someadministrative or professionalfaculty at GMU may be called staff
elsewhere.

·With regard to question of administrative
faculty with rank, it was further noted that in HR, all administrative faculty
have a rank, coded for every single faculty member.Also reference to paragraph in Administrative/Professional
Faculty Handbook in which people come from faculty positions to serve as
administrative faculty until they return to the instructional faculty.One cannot be covered by both, although
acknowledgement some may be confused by this.Suggestion made to incorporate all or part ofC. FACULTY RANK from Administrative/ProfessionalFaculty Handbook (page 5) http://hr.gmu.edu/policy/AdmHandbook.Final1-1-07.pdf
.

·More complicated scenario in which associate
dean went up for full professor rank while serving as administrative faculty –Faculty
Handbook rules were followed as this involved his instructional faculty
identity.A statement is needed,
although situation may rarely apply; also with reference to administrative
faculty with tenure-line positions.Also
question whether position may have been saved in department when instructional faculty move to administrative faculty position.

·Reference to 2.1.7 Categories of Faculty
Employees:Tenured faculty in
administrative positions did not lose the right to vote as tenured faculty,
when their status changed from 12 month instructional to administrative
faculty.One cannot be instructional and
administrative faculty at the same time.Department rules may say only instructional faculty can vote.In COS by-laws, people holding faculty rank
may vote:tenured, tenure-track,
instructional faculty, research faculty, but not adjunct faculty.

·Administrative faculty must be within three
levels of president, you would not be administrative faculty if did not report
directly to dean.For example, if you
report directly to associate dean, you are not administrative faculty.Professional faculty have
a narrower set of responsibilities – arbitrary somewhat, to bifurcate to see
narrower vs. very broad responsibilities; clarified with publication of Administrative/Professional
Faculty Handbook in 2004.

·Positions may be misnamed when posted – seems
like administrative faculty position, but is professional faculty
position.AAUP urges young faculty to
make sure receive this information in writing.

·Use of terms in Fact Book may not appear
elsewhere.

Back to Preface:should we not have some statement to provide guidelines on interpretation?To include also in 1.3.8 Institutional
Evolution?

·Discussion of need for ombudsman.Does it require a full-time position?The person who served in this position
(during President George Johnson’s administration) as a part-time role.Previous arrangement very informal,
was widely criticized as pro-administration.

·As GMU Chapter president of the AAUP, Lorraine has spent more
time talking and listening to people, no one there to advise people. AAUP needs
to prepare a kit describing procedures; lack of money.To review AAUP material on this topic.Also to review language for Student Academic
Affairs Ombudsman at GMU.

·Interaction between three parties to the Faculty
Handbook:BOV has power over the
administration; administration has (some?) power over the faculty; faculty
somewhat disempowered.To have a
position on the BOV as a designated place faculty could go regarding concerns
about lack of compliance of administration to Faculty Handbook?Could also play role in potential grievances and
dealing with tenure issues – an important and significant issue.Would like to see this position not tied to
administration, similar to general counsel; not to be budgeted under Provost office or faculty; a neutral professional role to set up
organizationally, not beholden to either side.Need for a concrete proposal.

1.1.Rector
and the Board of Visitors

Inclusion of new statement from revised by-laws for
Faculty Representatives to BOV Committees

(approved May 9, 2007)ArticleI. Membership 6.(in italics
below)

The Faculty shall
elect a non-voting representative to the following committees of the Board: the
Equity and

Committee,
Land Use and Physical Facilities Committee, and University Life Committee.To accomplish this

representation,
the Faculty Senate shall administer bi-annually five faculty liaison elections,
one for the Equity

and
Diversity Committee, Faculty and Academic Standards Committee, Finance and
Resource Development

Committee,
Land Use and Physical Facilities Committee, and University Life Committee.The candidates will

be
from the faculty at-large and elected by the faculty at-large.The Faculty Senate will notify the President
of

the
outcome and the President will forward the nominations to the Rector for
appointment.A separate faculty

member
may be selected to serve as a nonvoting, faculty liaison to the Audit
Committee.The Chair of the Audit

Committee will
solicit nominees and make the appointment.No faculty member may serve on more than one

committee.Faculty may serve more than one term.

Revised Text:1.1.
The Rector and the Board of Visitors

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Responsibility for the governance of GeorgeMasonUniversity
is vested by the laws of the Commonwealth
of Virginia in the Rector
and Board of Visitors. Members of the Board of Visitors are appointed by the
Governor of the Commonwealth to serve fixed terms of four years. The Rector is
a member of the Board, elected by the Board to serve as its chair.

Without limiting the
generality of its powers, the Board of Visitors exercises its authority
principally in

policy-making
and oversight. With the exception of meetings convened in executive session,
meetings of the

Board
of Visitors and its committees are open to the public. The Board recognizes as official
observers three senators appointed by the chair of the Faculty Senate to be its
liaison representatives. These senators receive notices of Board meetings,
agendas, and other documents concerning business to be considered by the Board,
and report regularly to the Senate about Board meetings.The Faculty shall elect a non-voting
representative to the following committees of the Board: the Equity and
Diversity Committee, Faculty and Academic Standards Committee, Finance and
Resource Development Committee, Land Use and Physical Facilities Committee, and
University Life Committee.To accomplish
this representation, the Faculty Senate shall administer bi-annually five
faculty liaison elections, one for the Equity and Diversity Committee, Faculty
and Academic Standards Committee, Finance and Resource Development Committee,
Land Use and Physical Facilities Committee, and University Life Committee. The candidates will be from the faculty
at-large and elected by the faculty at-large.The Faculty Senate will notify the President of the outcome and the
President will forward the nominations to the Rector for appointment.A separate faculty member may be selected to
serve as a nonvoting, faculty liaison to the Audit Committee.The Chair of the Audit Committee will solicit
nominees and make the appointment.No
faculty member may serve on more than one committee.Faculty may serve more than one term.

Revision:1.2.1 The President – change “of” to “to”
so that revised text now reads:

The Board of Visitors elects the President of the
University, who serves at its pleasure. The President is the chief executive
officer of the University and reports to the Rector and Board of Visitors. As
chief executive officer, the President is charged with carrying out the
policies of the Board and providing leadership ofto the University's faculty, staff,
and students in achieving major objectives. Within guidelines established by
the laws of the Commonwealth
of Virginia and the Board
of Visitors, the President is in charge of day-to-day administration and
operation of the University.

Revision:1.2.2 The
Provost

Title
“Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs” appears only in GMU Factbook.Adminstrative/Professional Faculty Handbook text does
not include it, to remove for simplicity.To ask Provost whether he wishes title to remain.

Revised Text:1.2.2 The Provost

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= New Text), Yellow
= Text Deleted

The Executive
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (hereafter abbreviated as
Provost) is the principalchief academic officer of the University
and is responsible for all educational matters. The Provost is appointed by the
President and serves at the President's pleasure.

Revision:1.2.3 Other Members of the Central
Administration

To
include two paragraphs from Administrative/Professional Faculty Handbook “The
Executive Council” and “President’s Council”, not to sort out as separate
items.Add “chair of the Faculty Senate”
to President’s Council membership.To
ask Tom Hennessey to contribute introductory paragraph:What is their role?What are they empowered to do?

Revised Text:1.2.3 Other Members of the Central
Administration

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= New Text), Yellow
= Text Deleted

(Pending
introductory paragraph from Tom Hennessey)

The
central administration of the University includes administrative vice
presidents, administrative deans, their associates and assistants and other
members of their staffs. Administrative vice presidents and administrative
deans are appointed by the President and serve at the President's pleasure.
Other members of the central administration are appointed by the vice
presidents for whom they serve; they may be appointed and reappointed to fixed
terms of one, two, or three years, or they may serve at the pleasure of the
vice presidents by whom they are appointed

The
Executive Council

The Executive Council of the University includes the
President, Provost, Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff, Vice President for
University Relations, Vice President for University Development and Alumni
Affairs, Vice President for University Life, and Vice President for Information
Technology. The members are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the
President.

President’s
Council

The President’s Council consists of college and school
deans and directors who are appointed by the President, serve at the
President’s pleasure, and report to the Provost. President’s Council also
includes other senior nonacademic administrators who report to their respective
Executive Council Officers.